Duel Jousting

Duel Jousting is a jousting game with five modes: Standard, Duel, Arena, Retro and Local CO-OP. You battle enemies, earn experience and money, level up your character, and customize your jouster and dragon.

Game modes

Standard mode takes place across maps with stages. Beating stages on a map unlocks many more, with 50 stages in total. Arena mode sends increasingly difficult waves of enemies at you; surviving earns money and major level-ups, and you can unlock additional Arena maps. Retro mode uses a simple 16-bit style, disables power-ups and replaces them with a class system.

Duel mode has special rules: each time you enter at a different level, you are matched against an enemy at your level. You can play it only once per level because its rewards are high. Local CO-OP lets you play with friends in almost every mode except Duel.

Progression and rewards

Destroying enemies in any mode earns experience. Leveling up makes your character faster on the ground and in the air, and increases attack and defense. The level cap is 20. The in-game shop uses earned money to offer power-ups, weapons, armor and other items; it is not a real-cash shop.

More than a dozen power-ups can drop randomly from the sky in stages and other modes that support them. Their timing and location vary from playthrough to playthrough. The game also has more than 20 achievements, which unlock in-game rewards.

Green eggs are worth 2,000 points each and add to the high score for that map. Reaching certain map scores unlocks rewards, though it is not the only way to unlock content. Reaching 5,000 points grants an extra life, and gaining another 10,000 points grants one more, to help in later stages and end-game content. If you run out of lives except for your last one, your dragon loses its jouster but can still bite enemies.

Customize your dragon

Use the character customizer to change your jouster and your dragon’s skin, and equip armor. Armor provides defense boosts and comes in four tiers. A special AI enemy called The Hunter can appear from green eggs you do not collect in time. It chases you, and defeating it earns a reward.